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By Virginia Grantier
For the Times
He stops, sits and watches when he sees a red-tailed hawk.
“I just really enjoy watching them hunt,” said Andy Spencer of Conifer, the new education coordinator for Evergreen’s Hiwan Homestead Museum.

Interim acting fire chief Brian Zoril, a longtime volunteer firefighter, has been named chief of Foothills Fire & Rescue, it was announced Dec. 29. He becomes the second paid fire chief hired in the last 12 months and the second in the organization's history.

The headquarters station is at Interstate 70 and Evergreen Parkway, where the department is building a new garage.

Because she grew up in the shadow of her father, John Evans, the second territorial governor of Colorado from 1862 to 1865, Anne Evans' life story was largely ignored until Evergreen author Barbara Sternberg decided to make it the subject of her just-published book.

Living in the mountains means it's possible to bag an elk in your own backyard — provided it's hunting season and one has the proper license.

Disturbing though it may be to many neighbors in the idyllic bedroom communities of Evergreen, Genesee and Indian Hills, shooting elk on private property in unincorporated Jefferson County is legal, as long as the ammunition remains in the shooter's yard.

Joel Michael Herrin was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for kidnapping a woman from her Evergreen home on Dec. 29, 2009, forcing her to into his SUV and confining her in his apartment in Kittredge for nearly 12 hours.
Herrin, 41, had been working as a housecleaner in the woman’s home for four years.
Herrin previously pleaded guilty to first-degree kidnapping and attempted sexual assault Sept. 17. The sentencing originally was scheduled for Dec. 3 and was continued. Herrin originally could have faced a sentence of life in prison.

A fire was reported Saturday afternoon at Lookout Mountain Community Church off I-70.
Dispatchers about 1:30 p.m. reported the call, and said the building’s sprinkler system was activated.
Foothills Fire & Rescue and Evergreen Evergreen Fire/Rescue were responding to the blaze.

The church is on Commons Drive just off I-70 at the Lookout Mountain exit.